Liquid Light of Sex: Kundalini, Astrology, and the Key Life Transitions

This book describes and helps validate the changes and experiences undergone at mid-life by many individuals. She gives advice for men and women on how to handle the need for inner change and growth while preserving their relationships intact in most instances. While sharing her caution and respect for the rising of kundalini energy, and her view that it should not be forced to arise at an improper time, I do not agree that one always needs to wait until age 36 or so to let this energy begin to awaken. Damming and smothering the flow of kundalini energy when it is trying to rise at any time can have unfortunate effects as well, I believe. Use of certain meditation techniques and physical disciplines like Kundalini Yoga can help to make this awakening safe and smoother when it does occur. Unfortunately, the subject of kundalini awakening has been neglected by western science and astrology, so this book is performing a valuable service by acknowledging the phenomenon and giving helpful advice on how to handle the experience. I believe that just reading that many other people have had similar experiences can help a person to feel better about themselves and not just think they are "going crazy." When I first experienced kundalini rising, I had no one to talk to about the phenomenon, and I only realized years later that other people had these experiences of the feeling of energy flowing in the body as well.I found the sections in this book on the astrological houses and the polarities they represent to be particularly helpful and inspiring. I found the updated material on Saturn at the end of the book to be helpful as well in describing and plotting phases of one's career and life. In addition, Barbara brings in material on the cycles of Chiron, the heavenly body discovered in our solar system in 1977, and its return to its original position in our natal charts at age fifty. I found this material on Chiron, the wounded healer and ruler of many New Age techniques and modalities, to be so intriguing and moving, and to have so much resonance in my own life experience, that I have bought her book on Chiron and have started to read it as well. Her chapter on Global Shamanism near the end of the book helps tie the experiences of the individual in with the journey of society as a whole and helps to postulate some remedies for current problems of society. I do wish there had been more material on the planet Neptune and its transits at midlife as well. She also does not talk about the planets in the various signs, and transits of the outer planets to other planets in the natal chart, probably due to space restrictions and to the fact that this book was written for a general audience, not just for astologers and those interested in astrology. Therefore, the timing and character of certain events might be a little different for some people due to other factors in their individual charts not examined here. It would be helpful to the reader to get their chart done after reading this book to further personalize Barbara's findings. Also, books like Jeff Green's book on Pluto, or Bil Tierney's "Alive and Well" books on the outer planets could help expand the knowledge of the reader even further. Overall, this book is an excellent beginning to anyone wanting to examine the subject of mid-life crisis from a spiritual point of view.

What an amazing insight on the phenomenon of the midlife crisis. We have been socially emulating the midlife crisis in American media for at least 40 years since the first balding man appeared on the disco floor. Barbara Hand Clow now gives the masses a handy little tool for understanding why this happens to everybody and how to prepare for it. I am pushing 40 pretty closely now and my experience is scheduled to begin in 2016. My husband's is coming around the corner in 2014. I was totally blown away at this theory (astrological involving the relationship of Uranus and Saturn in your chart) and the case studies to illustrate it's effect on real people. But then again, I am blown away by the overwhelming intellect of Mrs. Hand-Clow every time I read something new. Beautiful!

This is a great book for anybody in their 30s to understand what will be happening as we enter 40. The description is excellent, taking several complicated topics and shining the light on the most relevant parts of the equation. I have mostly given up on reading about astrology, but this book is an excellent resource to help us understand some key life passages. It will stay on my shelf as a book I will visit again and again and recommend to friends and clients in the right age category!

Barbara Hand Clow's best work in my opinion is found in her two Pleiadian books; the Pleiadian Agenda and the Alchemy of Nine Dimensions. This book, though called the Liquid Light of Sex, deals almost completely with the planetary reasoning for our journey through life's growth cycles and how they are governed by, and revisited through, our own particular astrological birth charts and the way the planets are positioned at various key points in our lives. Although there are charts in the book to make it clear how and when these changes are most likely to manifest in our lives, unless you are somewhat knowledgeable in astrology, they can be confusing. However if you can get the basic premise, the book can supply 'Aha' moments when you look back at your life and chart it according to her directions. If you are young enough, you can even chart your future growth timelines. I was hoping that there would be more information on Kundalini in relation to sex but really this is mainly an astrological treatise on life changes

This is such an informative book. The description of the Uranus opposition otherwise known as the Midlife Crisis is exactly what I went through and this made me understand that I wasn't completely nutso without reason. The other transits discussed were interesting as well.

I loved this book because it helps guide you through mid-life crisis, even if you have already past it. It helps you navigate the results and helps you reach your full potiential.

This is an awesome book that helps fill in the gaps of western medicine. This is best used in conjunction with discussions with your Dr. Though don't be too surprised if your Dr. looks at you sideways. It is a different way of looking at life transitions that happen to all of us.

This book will give you tips on how to design your life based on the the alignment of your planets.A Masterpiece...Perfection...Ernesto Saks

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